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Prior to the first bounce, it is evident that the Geelong Cats will need to lessen their dependence on the performance of Patrick Dangerfield and Joel Selwood, but this is the sort of problem any AFL club would enjoy, as it certainly beats some of the issues that teams such as the Brisbane Lions must…

Considering how long tyres have been around (geometry pun), it seems that everything would have been thought of by now, but the technology continues to improve and advance, as was apparent when Supercars driver Rick Kelly set a lap record at Sydney Motorsport Park on the Dunlop Tyre Company’s most recent innovation. Dunlop has issued…

Injuries are part of the game, to be sure, but NRL clubs that are seeing their casualty wards filled before the regular season gets underway may begin to question the risk involved in pre-season trials. Four sides were hit over the weekend with significant injuries to stars who now, rather than round into form for…

It is the World Cup Challenge that precedes the official 2017 NRL Telstra Premiership, and already, the Cronulla Sharks have a target on their backs that will only grow larger following the club’s upset at the hands of the Wigan Warriors. The Sharks were on the wrong side of the score from the outset following…

With 40 percent of their starters hailing from Down Under, the Utah Jazz are showing legitimate indications of being a team well-equipped to go deep into the NBA playoffs, although those playoffs are still several months in the future. And whilst it sounds impressive to toss out a 40 percent statistic, since NBA teams only…

As if golf was not sufficiently diffiuclt, the World Super 6 golf tournament beginning tomorrow at Lake Karrinyup, in the Perth vicinity, has added a new wrinkle to the game, with a format so outside the box that it threatens to move into the realm of a sporting affair combining the rules of cricket and…

Job security in Australia where the game of cricket is concerned is at best tenuous, as the example of Nathan Lyon confirms. Lyon was nearly dropped several weeks ago, only to receive a reprieve and be selected as the first-choice spinner for the upcoming tour of India. His bowl must spin like never before if…

Whilst the Yanks were busy heaping praise on a British pop singer at the 59th Grammy Awards ceremony, the same sort of thing was happening in Melbourne to the Adelaide 36ers, quite deservedly so, as they hauled in the major NBL awards on Monday night. Point guard Jerome Randle took home the 2016 – 2017…

It took an act of nature to slow down world number one golfer Jason Day in the second round of the AT & T Pro Am at Pebble Beach. Day was halted by fog after 12 holes. He had fired seven birdies without a bogey, including a streak of four consecutive from the ninth through…

“Will Race Motorcycles for Food” could have been the phrase on the sign of Josh Brookes, who so badly wants to be on the starting grid of the World Superbikes races at Phillip Island. This is 2017, however, and rather than stand on the corner in the hopes of attracting donations for various and sundry…